The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-01-27
TIL WEEKLY SENTINEL: HURsDAY JANUARY 81 1887
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Chief Justice jackson of Georgia is
dead. Hon. Samuel Hall, native of
North Carolina, is, as is well known,
one of the remaining members of the
court over which he presided.
The Congress of the United States,
in session at Raleigh, is still discussing
the Blair bill, the internal revenue
system, the tariff, and the civil service
law.-StotesvilIe Landmark.
Hon. Jos. r. Hawlev has been re-
elected to the Senate from Connecti-
cut. He is native of North Carroll
ma, has won fame and is among the
most honest and best furnished of the
Republican Senators.
E. w. Gurley, of Hendersonville,
North Carolina, has been awarded the
first prize, $3.50, by the New York
Tribune for the best true story of the
war. E. E. Stedman, the poet bank
er, was the judge to whom were refer
red the stories.
This is found posted In a black
smiths shop down the country: ode
partnership therefore, resisting betwixt
me and Nose Skinner is hereby re-
solved. Dem what owe de firm will
settle wild me, and dem what de firm
owe will settle wild Nose"
Gen. Grants son, Jesse, visited
Asheville recently and was so we'll
pleased with the place and the climate
that he forthwith proceeded to rent
him house, but a man who had q
$4,000 house, demanded $1,000 rent
for six months ard Jesse in high dud-
geen gathered his household around
him and took his departure.
In the county of Cleveland, says
the aurora, lives parsimonious, hon
est and industrious pair, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Hamrick. They have lived
together halt century, yet never
bought pound of bacon on bushel
of corn, never go in debt and always
have potatoes to sell This pair fur
nished thirteen sons for the Con1eder-
ate service and have had tweoty-three
children, twenty of whom ase now
living.
Congress having resolved upon cele-
brating the Tooth anniversary of the
adoption Of the Constitution of the
United States at Washington in 1889,
the plan is to have a Permanent Ex-
position for the three iAmericas- A
National Board of Promotion has been
named. Those for North Carolina
are Hon. A. M. Scales, Governor J.
H. Currie, Esq, President of the Will
mington Produce Exchange; T. G..
Williams, Esq, Secretary of the State
Agricultural Society, w. r. Williams
ESQ.,, Master Of the State Grange.
From the Rockingham papers we
learn that the people of Richmond
county are called to vote on the 26th
of February on the question of sub
scribing $l0O, 0OOin county bonds to
the South Atlantic & Northwestern
Railroad, which line, it is proposed,
will run from, Smithville, n. c., to
Bristol, Tenn. The officers of the road
have established themselves at Smith
vile, and have purchased summer
hotel there which they have fitted UP
for use as offices. Already four coun.
| ties have voted 100000 each to the
capital stock of this line
From the well-known advertising
house of George P. Rowell & Co., pro.
prietors of the newspaper advertising
bul eau at 10Spruce Street, New York
City, has been issued small! volume
containing much and very important
information for advertisers. The list
of newspapers given contains only
such periodicals as are on q sound
footing, and have calculations running
up into the thousands. The prinoipa
papers Of the South, North East aac
West are represented, and classified
in a convenient way. 1t has been thu
aim of the publishers to sift the whea
from the chat, and the book disect.
the attention of an advertiser texare
papers which he should and ought t.
use, and. tends to intercept poutior
of that patronage which goes to publ
| Cations which cost greatly in exeee